Letters to the Editor

Dante Bartolomeo has been a consistent presence in helping keep our community safe, and her efforts have never been more apparent than after Friday's Operation Clean Sweep in Meriden's Olive Street area. Seeking to prevent future incidences of violence, blight and other issues that threaten the safety of our community, Dante and city enforcement departments closed several Meriden streets as part of the intensive, zero-tolerance inspection. These efforts targeted previous enforcement issues that allowed the City to address existing deficiencies while simultaneously identifying new ones.

During Operation Clean Sweep, Dante and representatives from the police, fire, health and housing departments received unprecedented cooperation from City residents, many of whom requested City officials to enter their premises due to poor conditions from landlords. These inspections revealed numerous health and safety issues that significantly endangered the welfare of citizens, families and children - issues that Meriden will take immediate and decisive action to resolve. After several violent incidences in this neighborhood, Dante's involvement underscores her dedication to public safety and ensuring this type of violence is prevented in the future.

Dante has a track record of working with her colleagues throughout the Meriden community to legislate from the ground up and meet the challenges facing her fellow residents. This contrasts sharply with State Senator Len Suzio, who remains noticeably absent from community collaboration and only seems to appear when the cameras are rolling. While Operation Clean Sweep and other enforcement efforts have targeted all recent violence in Meriden, Suzio only gets involved when it involves the sensational. That may lead to good publicity, but it rarely results in beneficial changes on behalf of our residents. Those improvements can only happen through day-to-day involvement in the community. That's the kind of leader Dante is and will continue to be in the State Senate.

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David D. Lowell

Meriden

Racism and hate are holding us back

I think this world is just full of racism/prejudice people.

There are people that hate you because of your skin tone / ancestry and i just don't get hat also, if you are a member of the LGBT community you get harassed by people that hate you because you are gay i think it is a time for people to step up and speak out i against this type of this thing.

I would hate if someone would walk up to me "Hey I don't like you because you are white." I would be offended by it just, how a police officer can beat you up because you are African-American or Latino or any other race in this great country our ours.

I just, think it is unprofessional for a businessman or a police officer.

I respect Mitt Romney's opinion on having a "regular marriage." But, it is the 21st century Mr. Romney I am sorry to say this but, It is time for change and I respect you for being a Mormon and you should respect me for being a Catholic/Christian. I just think that we should all just get along that is what I think we should do. We are an "American Melting Pot" with all races and religions.

I think people are entitled to your own options and I hope you make the right decision to not be racist or prejudice.

Our mothers all ways told us "Think before You Say."

I think before I say so should you.

Thanks So Much,

Anthony Moran

Americans need humanity to save 42,500 victims

Generally, it takes about two years for processing a US patent application to its issue.

42,500 Americans are killed yearly by traffic accidents in the United States, where lives of the victims can be saved by the invention of advanced technology of "Automatic Braking System" being disclosed in US patent applications no. 11/982,774 and 10/725,226 filing date 12/01/2003 almost nine years pending in US Patent office. Seven years in delay beyond the usual processing time caused a loss of 290,410 Americans.

Americans should know of the reality to protect themselves by writing to The White House, U.S. related Departments, U.S. Patent & Trademark Office as the inventor did to make requests to them for releasing a deadlock of such long-lasted petitions to promptly issue patents for putting the invention into practice to save lives of Americans.